interˈlaced, ppl. a.
(ɪntəˈleɪst, ˈɪntəleɪst)
a. In senses of the vb. spec. in Her. see quot. 1766 and cf. interfretted.
| 1593 Queen Elizabeth Boeth. iv. met. vi. 97 So Interlaced looue renewes The eternall courses all. 1598 Florio, Intercalare uerso,..a verse interlaced. 1766 Porny Heraldry Gloss., Interlaced..is applied in blazoning Annulets, Rings, Crescents, etc., that are linked together in the same manner as are the links of a chain. 1830 R. Knox Béclard's Anat. 51 Bundles of parallel or interlaced threads. 1874 Boutell Arms & Arm. x. 189 True mail armour of interlaced rings. |
b. Television. Applied to scanning in which the lines or the dots of the picture are interlaced (see interlace v. 6), so that each is built up from two or more fields; composed or combined in this way.
| 1935 R. W. Hutchinson Television Up-to-Date v. 131 It has been suggested that a system of interlaced scanning, as it is called, should be adopted: in this, lines 1, 3, 5, 7, etc., would first be scanned, and then the intermediate ones, 2, 4, 6, 8, and so on. 1936 O. S. Puckle tr. M. von Ardenne's Television Reception i. 21 With the resulting 50 pictures per second, the flicker of the interlaced picture is almost entirely avoided. 1953 H. A. Chinn Television Broadcasting i. 5 In order to conserve bandwidth without sacrificing freedom from flicker, the standard television system employs a system of interlaced scanning. 1961 New Scientist 26 Jan. 199/3 The British system transmits 25 complete pictures per second, forming each from 405 horizontal lines laid down in two interlaced sequences of 202½ lines each. |
Hence interˈlacedly adv., in an interlaced manner.
| a 1641 Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) An infallible concatenation of causes depending interlacedly one upon another. 1830 T. Roscoe Tourist Switz. & Italy 154 These were to be declaimed, as it may be termed, interlacedly; that is, a piece of Noah, a piece of Cæsar, and a piece of Pantaloon. |